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New Vacancy - PHP Website Developer

Due to company expansion and continuing success, we are recruiting for a website developer.  The candidate will report to the senior developer and work on a variety of exciting projects for a range of clients both regional and national.

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Welcome to Steven, our new php developer

Colin Harris Website Development are delighted to announce the appointed of Steven Ions as the company's new Website Developer.

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New Vacancy - PHP Website Developer - Full Time

We are currently looking to employ a PHP Website Developer with the following skills:

  • Website development using PHP, Mysql, Jquery, HTML and CSS
  • Skills in at least one of Wordpress, Drupal, Magento
  • Experience of developing for and working with Content Management Systems (CMS)
  • Ability to build secure, functional websites from specification
  • Knowledge of web standards and technological trends
  • Understanding of business requirements, deadlines and meeting expectations

Full details of the job description and requirements - job listing.

Getting php mail function to return bounced email to sender

I was digging around my server tidying things up, and I found I had a huge www-data mail file. I took a look into the file and found it was full of bounces from emails sent from sites I host to users, whose email address did not exist or there were issues.

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Hints, Tips and Advice for Freelance website developers - the Advanced version

There are 1,001 pages on the web for hints, tips and advice about starting off as a freelance web developer - or freelance anything to be honest, and they are so much better than anything I can spout off on.  But I have been freelance for nearly 5 years now, developing many different projects for a wide range of clients, and would like to pass on some hints and tips that I've learnt (often the hard way) over the years.

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